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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...would make such a gradual grade in a railroad track, that it could only be determined by the most practised eye. Theoretically, they are so low that the strata might almost be consider horizontal; and yet practically, even the lowest dip is of the greatest importance. In mining economy, a dip of even 10 feet to the mile may introduce a new element, into profit and loss account, which may render the working of the coal bed unprofitable. At the present condition of the bituminous coal trade, it requires a superior coal, to make it pay to pump the mine. The difficulties which will always beset the miner, in working the Lafayette township coals, are such that the relative cost of mining will always be high, even with the strictest mine management. When the inferior quality of the fuel is taken into consideration, it may be safely asserted that it can only be under the most favorable or exceptional conditions, that the Alton coals can be profitably mined, as a competing coal in the market. Unfortunately the Alton coal bed, which is pissibly the most important coal in the Alton basin, is over 50 feet below water level at Alton, where it lies lower than at any other point in the basin. Here is the natural point for mining the coal and yet all the drainage water of the mine would have to be pumped. 235. The vertical section of measures, actually outcropping in Lafayette township, extends from the Clermont Clarion) over rocks (capping the hill at the old Davis coal mine near Lafayette) downward, to shale beds in the upper part of the Chemung formation near Lewis run, 1050' Oil well records carry the column of rocks further downward, 1250' to 1300'. The total column of Carboniferous and Devonian rocks, known in Lafayette township, is about 2300'. No detailed o...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231076859
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 110
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231076852
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 213 gr


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